JOHN OWEN, A PRE-EMINENT PURITAN Notes of a Lecture, December 2004. Historical Background The history of Puritanism may be divided into three periods. 1. From the accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) to the crushing of the Presbyterian movement by her in 1593. 2. From 1593 to the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640. 3. …
Issue: Issue 7
Notes of a lecture given in October 2001 Introduction In the New Testament there is a group of words like holy, saint, and sanctification which are all derived from the same Greek word, HAGIASMOS, which has the basic meaning of being separated to and for God and hence the condition of life which is the …
A DISCIPLINED LIFE Notes of a lecture at Evington, December 2001 It is a universal fact that the most useful lives are disciplined lives. Real Christians are people under discipline. Our great example is Jesus Christ. 1 must be about my Father’s business? Luke 2.49. 1 delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, …
THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHILDREN Notes of an address Basic Principles 1. All are born into a sin-ruined human-race. Psalm 51.5. Romans 3.10 and 5.12-19. 2. No one is saved or goes to heaven on the ground of personal innocence. 3. All who are in heaven at last are redeemed by Christ out of …
ENOCH A Sermon by J. C. Ryle `Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him.’ Genesis 5.24 You all wish to go to heaven. I know it. I am fully persuaded of it; I am certain of it. There is not one of you, however false may be his views of …
Notes on a lecture at Evington, December 2002 Background I need to give you a very brief outline of the period leading up to the times Augustine lived in. The NT church was led by our Lord’s chosen Apostles. Local churches were under the leadership of elders (also called bishops, overseers, presbyters) and deacons. It …
THE PILLAR Henry Law, one time Dean of Gloucester `The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.’ Exodus 13.21. The children of Israel are about to tread …